Facebook answers your questions...sort of

The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, answered your questions about who owns your content posted on Facebook. I am not sure he actually answered the question. It looks like he circumvented it.

Here is what Zuckerberg had to say.

One of the questions about our new terms of use is whether Facebook can use this information forever. When a person shares something like a message with a friend, two copies of that information are created—one in the person's sent messages box and the other in their friend's inbox. Even if the person deactivates their account, their friend still has a copy of that message. We think this is the right way for Facebook to work, and it is consistent with how other services like email work. One of the reasons we updated our terms was to make this more clear.

Stay tuned...